But one booklover in Toronto doesn't think so and shot a beautiful stop-motion tribute to books and stores that sell them.

Sean Ohlenkamp, an associate creative director at Toronto marketing agency Lowe Roche, shot the video over four nights at Type Books, an independent bookstore on Toronto's trendy Queen Street west that he shops at.

The stop-motion video, titled "The Joy Of Books" was shot over four nights with the help of more than 15 volunteers, explained Sean Ohlenkamp, the video's creator. He and his team started as soon as the store was closed and worked through the night. "At around 5 a.m. we had to start putting books back for their next business day," he said.

"I never want to see another book as long as I live," he joked.

In the stop-motion video, books poke out of shelves, pile themselves on top of one another and perform some intricate choreography. Of course the books can't actually do this on their own, and had to be moved for each shot by Ohlenkamp and his team of volunteers.

"I think it's amazing. There wre moments in the video that I gasped," said Joanne Saul, co-owner of Type. "The video says long live the book. It's not dead. It gets up and it dances," she added.

A stop-motion short advert animation for a fictitious Waterstone's advertising project. Created using paper cut outs from actual book pages and animated by Rochelle Donald, final year Visual Communication student, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen.

This is a public service announcement for Literacy Source, completed as part of a nonprofit redesign project at Seattle Central Creative Academy. The design team consists of myself (Kyle Hepworth), Kevin Cox, and Sahara Coleman. I drew, cut out, and posed about 300 figures, and we shot it all over the course of a few days. The music is an original melody called "Paper Mountain" by Elezeid, who was kind enough to compose it for us. www.facebook.com Literacy Source is a free teaching organization, working to combat adult illiteracy. They need our support to help others, and because they're volunteer driven, resources are often minimal. I encourage you to learn more, and help anyway you can. Visit their YouTube channel at www.youtube.com

A stop-motion short advert animation for a fictitious Waterstone's advertising project. Created using paper cut outs from actual book pages and animated by Rochelle Donald, final year Visual Communication student, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen.

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